Zeon Light - Solo Archivist | Meditations on Time (2014)

Zeon Light 

/Electro-acoustic, Cowbell indie, Free folk, Glitch ambient, Post-folk, New Weird Sweden, Experimental folk, Musique concrete/

Comment: Zeon Light`s 2-notch issue comprises lengthy progressions made up of acoustic guitar twangs, concrete sounds and spacey digital noises. All these elements do not fall apart but are organically fused into each other. The listener can discern interplay between silence and noise and transformations from descending to ascent. Furthermore, the elements constitute intriguing combinations. The album is a part of the discography of a Sweden based tape label, Zeon Light Records whose slogan is pretentious music for pretentious people.  

Trinidad James – No One is SaFe (2015)

Audiomack

DJ Booth

/Hip-hop, Rap, Soul hop, Urban music/  

Comment: Atlanta-based Nicholas Williams aka Trinidad James`s sophomore 10-track issue is a frantic hip-hop album/mixtape revealing his different facets and influences in an impressive way. Indeed, topics about bitches-fucking and niggas would not be so impressive on its own if not backed up by convincing rhythms and suggestive dodges here and there quite frequently. Some paranoid and noise soaked chants-rhythms (similar to the aesthetics of Death Grips, Satanic Erynn Boe 666, and Dälek) are varicoloured with street gang touched G-funk paces and even sensitive soul hovers. Although Trinidad James is a talented guy for sure he is supported and featured by many other emcees and producers. The favourite track of mine is T James Express (Prod By DJ A) (more concretely, it is about a pussy train).          

Poverty Electronics Vol. 2 (2014)

Bandcamp

/Noise, Power electronics, Leftfield, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment: it is often asked how one could distinguish between bad and good noise music. It will be even more problematic because of noise music frequently used to converge with other styles, for instance with power electronics, industrial and experimental electronic music. Noise music does not mean the kind of harsh noise anymore as previously it used to be. However, the recent compilation of 18 tracks is a fascinating gathering of impulses and chips of the abovementioned styles. There are up in a row such artists as Schemawound, Wozzeck, datewithdeath, Ryan Stanley, Jon Thoresen, mhzesent, mutant.R.I., Big Purr, Nathan J Carter, A Raja`s Mesh Men, NRIII, DJ Conical Bore, Sickle Cell Maneuvers, Der Domestizierte Mensch, Stormhat, Cool Person, Rubbish, and AG Davis.    

[Teaser of the day] MrJuan - Robot Samba

• Psychedelic pop
• Alternative dance
• Samba
• Alternative pop
• Dance rock

[Teaser of the day] Red Cosmos - The Song Has Changed

Clinical Archive

• Alternative pop
• Indietronica
• Art pop
• Cowbell indie
• Psychedelic pop

Postcode - Take Me As I Am

F600 - At Home Like a Tourist (2011)

Pueblo Nuevo

/Robot pop, Club dance, Electro pop, Dubstep, Alternative dance, Ambient techno, Dub-techno/

Comment: The Chilean musician Miguel Conejeros` 10-notch issue reveals many different facets and angles regarding contemporary electronic and rhythm centred music. There are represented electro and dub threads with often hints at robotic aesthetics. The release does involve many exciting stylistic combinations, rhythmic vibes, profound echoes coming from the nexus, blissful synth hovers and poignant sonic effects atop. In a word, it can say the album may have the placebo effect for your body and soul. Highly recommended.             

[Teaser of the day] Mojave 3 - You`re Beautiful

Archive.org

• Slowcore
• Indie pop
• Live session
• Dream pop
• Alternative pop
• Chamber pop

[Teaser of the day] Nodding by the Fire - The Oldest Living Things

• Indie folk
• Americana
• Folk indie
• Alt-folk
• Epic

[Teaser of the day] Grace Valhalla - Jenny

• Electronic pop
• Alternative
• Psychedelic
• Poptronica
• Acid
• Robot pop

Zero a m m 0 - Temporary Shades Of Gray (2007)

Resting Bell

/Post-rock, Avant-rock, Crossover, Modern classical, Spoken word, Electro-acoustic, Chamber music, Art rock, Experimental rock, Ambient/

Comment: Zero a m m 0 is a combo (Mathieu Graveline, Benoit Panneton) from Montréal, Quebec, Canada showing up a distinct sound exploration being so characteristic for the section of Montrèal based music collectives mainly related to Constellation Records.  Indeed, the duo exploits post-rock layers and nowadays sonic manipulation devices to design their sound. More concretely, those guitar based currents are channelized through the algorithm of reverse effect, chord loops, pitch bending and on the other side varicoloured with spoken word snippets and piano keys ranging from stomping to volatile ones. Because all of this this batch of 3 tracks can be considered as a transitional one trudging into the electro-acoustic, ambient and modern classical music territory. Furthermore, there is distinctly represented also interplay between sound and silence, between sonorous de-escalation and growing louder into elemental, noisy peaks. The result is enjoyably consistent and worth of any bit of it.        

Chad Golda – 8IGHT (2013)

Writing

/Free folk, Freak folk, Musique concrete, DIY, Weird folk, Singer-songwriter, Indie folk, Americana, New Weird America, Folk indie, Conceptual/

Comment: Chad Golda is a singer-songwriter from Fort Collins, USA whose was erstwhile being known as a member of such Michigan-based trio as Ringo Star/starstarstar, the combo who had issued some splendid albums under Rack & Ruin Records. Upon it he embarked on solo project which resulted in some poignant experimental releases made up of free folk, psychedelic rock, noise and electronics. However, this case is up there to provide eight brand new ones which are subjected to eight different modes/ recording premises ranging from the acoustic tape, digital four track, acoustic digital, and digital drum setup to electric digital drums, digital field recordings, and electric loop setup. More profoundly, at times the listener can enjoy bare acoustic guitar strumming at times the strings are accompanied with harmonium-drenched drones and more distinctly designed rhythmic patterns (may he be exploiting the drum machine if necessary at a time?) and some concrete sounds and reverberant singing layers. If to compare it to his first solo issues than aesthetically he is calmed down. It does mean the whole includes 64 tracks in total. Indeed, it is tremendous but worth to unzip it.           

(((О))) – The Trial (2011)

ODDOT

/Witch house, Avant-electronica, Dark wave, Drag house, Leftfield, Experimentalism/

Comment: The Trial is (((0))`s debut issue on ODDOT includes three tracks (Trial, Josephine, Waiting). The result is a marvellous witch house record because of gritty, bold beats and superficial noises are organically interlaced with haunting synth overtones and other bewitching sonic fabric elements (buried spoken word aspects, crackling electronic layers). The cover print also caress the ear (sorry, the eye). Highly recommended.          

[Teaser of the day] Super Besse - Камни и лес

• Post-punk
• Dance rock
• Alternative rock
• Electro-indie
• Cold wave
• New Wave
• Gothic rock
• Alternative dance
• Synth-punk

[Teaser of the day] Dwoogie - Touch

Free Music Archive

• Alternative dance
• Electro pop
• Breakcore

[Teaser of the day] The Orchestra Of Mirrored Reflections - Island Of A Maze

Petroglyph

• Jazz
• Downbeat
• Improvised music
• Film noir
• Mood music

The Kinoslav Studio Orchestra - ICON (2014)

Silent Flow

/Neoclassical, Crossover, Ambient, Leftfield, Post industrial, Film noir, Gothic, Dark wave, Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Drone, Electronic/

Comment:  one is sure as shooting that The Kinoslav Studio Orchestra`s debut album pleases my ears thoroughly. However, it does not mean that all is friendly, serene and sunshiny sonorously on it. On the contrary, throughout the most of its course the US-based project conjures up melancholic and sombre landscapes which are punctuated by slowed down beats, sad cello layering, whimsical bagpipe-alike drones and eerie and manipulated electronics atop or in the midst of. Infrequently some blissful, spaced-out glimpses are to ascend, swirl and change their phases. Many sounds represented over there are remarkably processed and suppressed into the forms of otherworldly life which used to flicker and flutter. And stylistically the issue is implacable because of spitting at possibility to have the range of a certain style. The album was produced on two studios in Illinois and Iowa.                  

Moscow Club – Radio Vietnam EP (2012)

Bandcamp

/Indie pop, Chillwave, Glo-fi, Synth pop, Alternative pop, Poptronica/

Comment: it is always a great pleasure to arrive at a Japanese combo, Moscow Club`s music due to its serene sonorous cloud made up of exquisite synth progressions and volatile vocal progressions and sublime guitar chords. The title track is a more guitar oriented one with the poignant guitar gear, Sanatorium, however, sounds like a full-fledged synthesizer pop example with slightly autotuned, wadded singing as if coming out of the 80s. Enjoy it!           

The Go! Team - Rwb003 (2004)

Racewillbegin

/Indie rock, Alternative pop, Brass pop, Southern rock, Psychedelic rock, Sunshine pop/

Comment: this couple of tracks was issued some months before The Brighton-based (Great Britain) sextet surfaced to the limelight thanks to their highly acclaimed debut album Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Memphis Industries). These 7 minutes used to constitute a solid span for enjoying great guitar music being mixed up with cinematic woodwind drenched motives and suggestive piano chords. However, although they come out of Europe the combo´s sound and aesthetics remind more of the US-based tradition (the so-called Southern rock). One of the songs (Junior Kickstart) would also be  represented on the debut issue. The result is fabulous and hilarious at the same time.     

[Teaser of the day] He Is Watching Over Us - Doves

Lastfm

• Post-rock
• Chamber rock
• Epic
• Alternative rock

[Teaser of the day] DJ Torby - Beach Walker

Rumpfunk

• Electro-house
• Club dance
• Alternative dance

the tinopener's art - 1080

The Love Songs ‎– Some Protest Music For Today's Youth (2005)

Lastfm

Swift Music

/Post-rock, Ambient pop, Drone pop, Indietronica, Experimental rock, Musique concrete, Organcore/

Comment: these 33 minutes are fairly gorgeous ones because Sven Swift provides a flawless set of concrete sounds, balmy noisy impulses based either on vague post-rock templates or sublime drone hovers. At times these elements will be bent through some experiments on pitched effects or will be channelized into ecstatic signal-alike buzzes and psychedelic outputs. On the other side, such sort of music can be considered a modern form of nowadays New Age music. This 5-set album was issued in 2005 and obviously forecasted the coming of such band as Oneohtrix Point Never, for instance. In a nutshell, you have a chance to enjoy this excellent experimental album which unfortunately would not have got enough feedback from contemporary indie peers.               

Simone D'Annunzio - Near Death Experience #01 (2014)

ozky e-sound

Bandcamp

/Noise, Abstract, Musiqe concrete, Post-industrial, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Tape music/

Comment: this Italian artist depicts desolate landscapes made up of wailing metallic echoes, ellipse haped drone patterns and choking noise outbursts. Furthermore, Simone`s 2-track increases gradually in volume and loudness or just downshifting its drift in different directions in the meanwhile. A trump of D´Annunzio`s concept is that it is not a harrowing one because those noisy torrents are wisely variegated with more hesychastic, silence and poignant concrete sounds induced snippets. However, he is a fine example of continuity within the course of glorious Italian noise music harking back to such artists as Maurizio Bianchi, Luigi Russolo, Atrax Morgue, Mauthausen Orchestra. 

▒◊↭ᑯⅈℤ௨ழ↭◊▒ - 3D文学 (2013)

Poem Core 

/Electronic pop, Vaporwave, Poptronica, Alternative/

Comment: this 3-notch release from Nippon reveals its aesthetical backbone and impetus through aquatic and soporiferous synth vortexes and canorous electric piano based chords which constitute the rhythmical background for clear-cut declamations in Japanese (it is slightly warped at times, though). Eventually it can say any chord envisaged on it pleases the eye (and ear). The issue was released on Poem Core Records                         

Alejandro Remeseiro – Storm (2014)

Nostress

/Spoken word, Experimentalism, Organic electronica, Avant-garde, Musique concrète, Conceptual, Dark ambient/

Comment: Alejandro Remeseiro aka Thanatorium aka Elias Falken aka Eemian aka Prowano Prosper aka The Advanced Antennas aka Konsumprodukt is a prolific sound explorer from Spain whose 5-piece issue Storm is based on a relatively simple idea, mixing up agitated weather report annunciations (regarding the hurricane Sandy in 2012 on the east coast) with emotionally loaded sonic backgrounds and effects. However, the result is impressive because of going right to evoke epic dread and impending doom. Remeseiro`s work is haunting a little reminding of such seminal work as Irdial-Discs´ The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations (1997) (although do not have even a similar context). 

Sueño De Dahlia - Sueño De Dahlia (2013)

Jamendo

/Pop rock, Pomp rock, College rock/

Comment: this 10-piece issue is thought for everyone who likes listen to ostentatiously designed pop and rock music with obvious mainstream appeal. Lots of simplistic acoustic guitar strums and vivacious singing are varicoloured with more punching guitar riffs, slamming drums and massive electric guitar feedbacks and some sonic effects. From the beginning to its end the album includes an immense amount of key and moody changes even though these elements used to be recurrent and same. However, the ditties are well-crafted and fulfilled. The quartet comes out of Puerto Rico and the lyrics are presented in Spanish.   

[Teaser of the day] Alexander V. Mogilco - Dead Sea

• New Age
• World fusion
• Psytrance
• Alternative pop

[Teaser of the day] Mar'yan Kitsenko - Emotional Freedom (Sognefjord)

Soundcloud

• Dub techno
• Psytrance
• Alternative dance
• Tech-dub

[Teaser of the day] Shalma - Yokudo

MinusN

• IDM
• Experimental electronica
• Glitchtronica
• Experimental techno

Bark Bark Disco - Let's Do This

Beko_cs02 (August 2010)

Beko DSL

/Indie pop, Alternative pop, Indietronica, Electronic, Dream pop, Ambient pop/

Comment: as you can see a huge amount of stylistic tags above this compilation of 21 tracks embraces a lot of artists from the modern indie music spectrum. Mostly it is dominated by synthetic, keyboard percolated orchestrations and tenuous vocals. Indeed, the guitars do have a backseat role within the case. The miscellany was issued 5 years ago and it can say at the moment that some of these artists have gained popularity meanwhile and are solidly represented in most important webzines. For instance, Blackbird Blackbird, Porcelain Raft, Foxes In Fiction are those ones. Additionally there are represented such artists as Fluker Love, Black Coffee & Cherry Pie, Wizard Oz, Kites Sail High, Raw Moans & Party Trash, Petit Tambour, Cosmic Sound, Pandit, Liquid Days, Kiss Kiss Fantastic, Lay Bac, The Beauty, Vacation Dad, Mon Insomnie, The Cq, Hard Mix, Winter Drones, Coma Cinema. 

Bigcityorcheestrea - Child's Garden of NOIZE EP

Bandcamp

/Experimentalism, Sampledelic, Avant-garde, Sound art, Toytronica, Spoken word, Weird, Radiophonic art, Psychedelic, Sound collage/

Comment: the California-based Big City Orchestra (or issuing music under other name derivatives like the recent one) is a master of shifting context and toying with disparate samples from the recent world and travelling back to mirror the music produced many decades ago. Indeed, the result is fairly weird filled with child`s singing, concrete sounds, spoken word snippets (involving ambiguous minds), and improvisations on toy instruments (by the way, the subtitle of the album is four songs for kids for noise all day). These 15 minutes used to chime like the radio drama at first blush although it obviously emits beyond the genre. Emotionally it is intimidating and amusing simultaneously to arouse your sensibility to the next level. By the way, the date of the issue is designated with the year of 1903. In a nutshell, BCO`s art is still inescapably enchanting. 

Revolution Void - Increase the Dosage (2004)

Chesire

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

/Nu jazz, Acid jazz, Breaks, Electronic, Club jazz, Alternative, Mood music/

Comment: Jonah Dempcy aka Revolution Void`s 11-track issue crosses jazzy progressions and mellow woodwind, electric piano, reed organ and vibraphone based instrumentation with gritty programmed beats which eventually result in genuinely moody hovers and entertaining 68 minutes. All these sounds and layers used to swirl in a frenzied way. Besides Dempcy the activity is provided by many musicians (Matthew Garrison, Seamus Blake, Darryl Estes, Nicolas Manel, Michael Shrieve, Gino Yevdjevich, Ill-esha, Steven Burke, James Rotondi, Dave Hill Jr).

A Short Apnea – A Short Apnea (2011)

Neon Paralleli

Archive.org

/Noise, Experimental rock, Drone rock, Avant-rock. Leftfield, Spoken word, Experimental indie/

Comment: Neon Paralleli is an Italian label whose discography involves many avant-garde gems being relevant today and will obviously be relevant tomorrow either. A Short Apnea`s eponymous release is one of such albums (initially it was recorded in 1999 on Beware! and Wallace Records). More profoundly, the 10-track issue is built upon humming drones, different noises, pulsating electronics, some spoken word snippets in Italian and reverb drenched guitar chords which are there to conjure up different patterns from relatively clear-cut guitar progressions to more mysterious ambiances and neurotic studies ready to sustain thought-provoking feel and tickling suspense. In a word, it is a sophisticated one for your brain and soul.  

[Teaser of the day] Hans Atom - Persephone

CCMixter

• Alternative rock
• Dream pop
• Post-rock
• Indie pop

[Teaser of the day] Tapeheads - Acouphène

• Lo-fi
• Funk rock
• Psychedelic
• Alternative rock
• Bedroom pop
• New Weird Canada
• DIY
• Alternative dance

[Teaser of the day] Book Of Burrow - Hovel

No-Source

• Indietronica
• Post-rock
• Alternative dance
• Art pop
• Alternative pop
• Electronic

Joan of Arse by Joan of Arse

KTNG – Depths (2014)

Bandcamp

Amdiscs

/Experimental electronica, Sampledelic, Ambient/

Comment: KTNG is a project from Montrèal, Quebec, Canada, one of the most important music centres worldwide. It is suffice to say KTNG deserves to be a part of the city`s music scene. More concretely, it is built up on deep layering of buzzing electronic sounds, slightly ominous echoes, spaced-out rays, pitched sonic effects and samples (some of them are hushed) taken from the nature and social world. On the other side, these elements are seamlessly bound to a moody fabric which used to float freely. In a nutshell, all these 10 pieces will be united into a whole.       

Rickolus - Coyote And Mule Cassingle (2010)

Noise Horror

/Indie folk, Singer-songwriter, Psychedelic, Anti-folk, Experimental pop, Folk indie, Electronic, Lo-fi, DIY/

Comment: this very short-running issue (6 tracks feeding back up to 9 minutes only) includes different glimpses of alternative pop music – extending from slightly dreamy and psychedelic folk insights and reverberating noise driven indie rock propulsions to naivety laden electronic melodies full of cunning innocence and charm. Of course, this issue can be considered a piece of the cassette culture movement which was to have arrived in the 10s little by little. The outlet is publicized on such US-based label as Noise Horror.        

Sanchez Is Driven By Demons – Robot Replicas (2009)

Redstarcommunity

Lastfm

/Post-rock, Indietronica, Organcore, Glitchtronica, Electronic, Noise, Leftfield, Experimental indie, Ambient rock, Jazztronica/

Comment: Sanchez Is Driven By Demons` 10-track issue is a mixture set up of indie, post-rock, noise, jazz and electronic compartments. The result is astonishing and it might be one of the most intriguing post-rock and indietronic albums ever produced because of revealing unsettling nature and unconventional use of sonic components within itself. It is awash with many disparate sounds and tickling effects replete with inner power and readiness to convey further vivid impulses and glistening thoughts. The combo (Emil Johansson and Jonas Ottosson from Sweden) proves that noise can be penetrating and epic at the same time, and silence can be threatening and beatific simultaneously and (free) jazz can be very sexy and appealing. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon such projects as Tortoise, and Bark Psychosis. 

Landing Swabs – Fucking Melt EP (2007)

Clinical Archives

/Noise, Experimentalism, Improvised noise, Psychoacoustic, Avant-garde, Improvised music, Non-music/

Comment: Landing Swabs` 2-track issue insinuates a feeling as if you are listening to inner processes of an industrial proceeding in the factory building. The result is a tumultuous blend of noisy grits and demented noise torrents. All of that results in brown noise waves and violent sonic brushes appearing in the middle and periphery of layers. On the other side, the release can be tagged as improvised music because these elements follow somewhat chaotic and unpredictable path. Furthermore, there can be heard some impulses by such noise rock/experimental music combos as Black Dice, Battles, Hella, Black Pus, Lightning Bolt. The album is issued on legendary Moscow label Clinical Archives.    

Luciftias - Dronosphere III Transcension (2014)

Buddhist on Fire

/Drone, Abstract, Epic, Soundscapes, Drone rock, Dronegaze, Avant-garde, Dark ambient, Experimentalism, Minimalism/

Comment: undoubtedly La Monte Young and his comrades have much contributed to the development and broadening of sense of music. The tentacles of drone music can be found from everywhere today – from academic circuits and black metal and doom metal to more pop infected genres. However, by speaking about Luciftias` 70-minute composition it is problematic to generalize it – is it whether drone induced rock music or drone music with some influences pulled out from the experimental rock scene. However, it does make no sense because the main point reflects upon inability to differ audible sounds from inaudible ones whether being generated by the listener`s fondness to conjure up sounds or just produced by their imagination. Less is more does not mean it is somehow simplistic or inferior. In a word, the result is bewildering and spellbinding full of epic crescendos and swells for your pleasure. Mundane meets divine, rough meets sublime.       

[Teaser of the day] Foxes In Fiction - Altars

• Alternative pop
• Indie pop
• Dream pop
• Glo-fi
• Art pop
• Post pop

[Teaser of the day] Some Protest Music For Today's - Liberte Danse

Lastfm

• Musique concrète
• Organic electronica
• Avant-electronica
• Abstract electronica
• Sound art
• Kosmische Musik
• Minimal

Mmöner - Genesis Of the enD

Legacy: 25th Anniversary Game Boy (2014)

Ocremix

/Chiptune, Mood music, Alternative pop, Conceptual, Electronic pop, Metal/

Comment: this compilation involves 15 tracks dedicated to GB games. Stylistically the whole is mottled extending from brisk indie pop progressions and catchy electro pop propulsions to South Asia inspired quasi ethnic music hovers, New Age/pop classical extensions and acute metal riff laden compositions. In any cases, despite different rhythm expressions most of these pieces seem to be subjected to the same motive. It is quite surprising that chiptune/tracker music numbers are represented so austerely. There are represented such artists as The GuitahHeroe, urdailywater, Malcos, Rexy, DusK, Hylian Lemon, Sir_nutS, Argle, timaeus222, Bluelighter, Brandon Strader, HelicopterKnife Fight, Eino Keskitalo, Tuberz McGee, Chernabogue. In a nutshell, the result is moody and worth to be picked up.

Pixelgypsy – Perpetual Motion (2013)

Archaic Horizon

Lastfm

/Experimental electronica, Drone, Leftfield, Ambient/

Comment: this set of handful of tracks is a blend of shadowy electronica, hazy drones and vapour induced ambient music which in turn are embellished with ghostly surfaced vocal samples, lots of changes within the key spectrum. At times the compositions appear like improvisational ones. Actually one cannot say it is a part of ambient or drone music – generally it is a sort of experimental music which just used to incorporate abovementioned stylistic elements into the mix. Although it is an example of experimental music it provides lots of emotions and sensations. Perceive them. 

Shalma – Second Blur (2005)

MinusN

/IDM, Organic electronica, Experimental electronica, Minimal techno/

Comment: although this4-track issue was produced approximately 10 years ago it is still relevant and contemporary regarding such styles as IDM and intellectual techno music. Shalma`s outlet involves gritty layering filled with microscopic bits and hypnotic (semi) rhythms. Indeed, all these layers are masterfully melted into each other. The artist does add craftily organic sounds, oneiric noises and appropriate samples into the blend thereby giving it a natural feeling. In a nutshell, give it a try because it should have been a classic one.   

[Teaser of the day] Origamibiro - Dusk & Umber (ISAN remix)

FMA

• Experimental electronica
• Remix
• Modern classical
• IDM

[Teaser of the day] DET90 - The Definition

• Techno pop
• Alternative
• Dub-tech
• Electronic

Tracer Flare - Delete

TRACER FLARE // DELETE from DAVAÏ on Vimeo.

Memoirs of a Fallen Bomb - This Semester Is Going To End (2008)

Rack & Ruin

/Noise rock, Experimental rock, No Wave, Art rock, Space rock/

Comment: it is great pleasure to return to the catalogue of Rack & Ruin Records again and again. Memoirs of a Fallen Bomb`s 5-track issue consists of noisy and hirsute guitar riffs and more restrained noise burning on inferior levels. Maybe it is a contemporary, spacey instance of blues rock. However, on the other side there are also represented arpeggio-laden guitar arrangements which nature is remarkably circumspect yet filled with aesthetic tension. By the way, the release involves a video either. In a nutshell, this issue is worth to be remembered.  

(((О))) - Smoke (2011)

Oddot

/Witch house, Epic, Newbreed, Darkgaze, Drag house, Leftfield, Trianglecore/

Comment: this 6-track issue is a fine example from the pigeonhole of the so-called witch house/drag house music. I am very satisfied with this issue because of providing solemn synth feeling conjured up by tight cathedral organ drones and on the other side it broadens your imagination due to dystopia invoked compositional impulses. Sea incorporates field recording sounds into the mix of hanging synth progressions. The best moment on the album is Night which is profoundly dreamlike, warm and majestic offering the feeling like you are swimming in a pool with the temperature at least 35 C by Celsius.        

Nils Frahm - Screws (2012)

Erased Tapes

Lastfm

/Modern classical, Piano music, Minimal, Post-classical/

Comment: Screws was recorded while Berlin, Germany based musician Nils Frahm was recovering from a thumb injury. The album includes volatile chord progressions and restrained motive developments played on the piano. Indeed, those motives spawned over there used to surface and then meander over lone landscapes and then disappear into nothing. It can say that Frahm´s goal is not to reach some goal in a direct sense but just to move on and provide moody impulses and moments. On the other side, the album`s sense can be considered a successful equilibrium between silence and sound.              

[Teaser of the day] Fatti Frances - You´re Dead

Free Music Archive 

• Avant-pop
• Electronic
• Drag house
• Leftfield
• Crunkgaze
• Noir music
• Psychedelic
• Witch house

[Teaser of the day] The Brackets - Change Of Vibrations

Soundcloud

• Alternative rock
• Blues rock
• Art rock

Bark Bark Disco - Big Love

The Utica Flower Company - The Utica Flower Company (2007)

Quixodelic

Daydream Generation

Lastfm

/New Weird America, Free folk, Space rock, Acid rock, Indie folk, Psychedelic folk, Drone folk, Trance rock, Experimental folk, Folk indie, Psych-folk/

Comment: this 14-track issue is a decorous example of the so-called New Weird (America) movement. The album was released in 2007 which was the heyday of the style. More profoundly, expressive but ecstatic singing is tightly surrounded by burbly guitar twanging, spacey drones, and solfeggio choruses. At times folk tunes are to progress and metabolize into hazy trance rock templates thereby conjuring up psychedelic flashbacks and dilated self-realization. Certainly it is a wondrous experience to stop by and listen and be part of it. Indeed, those times were unforgettable ones because anyone called the shots and believed he/she can provide something precious to the world. The collective was related to such labels/platforms as Quixodelic Records and Daydream Generation which in turn were closely related to such wondrous music platform as it was Indiana-based CLLCT, of which involving hundreds of DIY projects. I really hope it is possible to recover it sometime.                      

Spacegoats – Live at the Rainbow Church '94 (1994)

Archive.org

/Psych-folk, New Weird Britain, Free folk, Live session, Exprimental folk, Improvised music, World fusion, Raga folk/

Comment: I guess everyone who has listened to music produced by Children Of The Drone and its satellite projects can recognise immediately the link between these projects. However, these crews are not being directly related to each other (Spacegoats started off in 1991 and lasted for approximately 10 years). This 10-track issue is a fabulous set of gushing energy and good feeling invoked by powerful singing and chanting and mystical string based progressions and ethnic music/tribal propulsions (there are represented such rarefied instruments as bouzouki, djembe, dulcimer, didgeridoo, mandolin). It sounds like carnival music uniting mundane dimension with divine perspective. It is a very proper issue worthy of historical legacy. Highly recommended (pf course).         

Philip Johnson – 0714 (2015)

Year Zero

/Experimental pop, Primitive music, Industrial, Experimental electronica,  Avant-pop, Art pop, Dada music, Freeformfreakout, Non-music, Improvised music, Weird pop/

Comment: this the second entry of mine into the discography of Year Zero Records, an experimental label frequently promoted by such great blogspot as Die or D.I.Y?. Philip Johnson`s 30-minute long album consists of spastic electronic drifts, overdriven guitar noises and angular drumming reminding an early Cabaret Voltaire, for instance. However, all of it said above conveys almost nothing about the release because if you do not listen to it you cannot perceive this frantic dada-drenched attitude resulting in fairly weird sonic effects, bent words, spinning noises, elongated keys and uncanny classical music developments. Furthermore, it is simultaneously primitive (sometimes also mimicking minimalist music stances) and sophisticated (for instance, conveying feeling of social relevance to the listener at Just Like It Should). Johnson`s experiments with simplistic yet somewhat eerie electronic beeps remind me of such eccentric electronic music pioneers as Bruce Haack, and Raymond Scott. Very solid issue by any avant-garde measures.    

Tunguska Electronic Music Society - Siberian Jungle Vol.5 (2014)

Bandcamp

Jamendo

/Drum and bass, Electronica, Jungle, Mood music, Dream and bass/

Comment: TEMS is a collective of artists and musicians from Siberia, Russia who have issued a barrage of compilation albums during the last 7-8 years. They have got many followers all around the world. This time their key word is jungle, though their approach is without orthodox one because of mixing those pumped rhythms with synthesizer invoked magniloquent panoramas and drowsy new age-y feeling and even indie electronic and jazzy whiffs. It is a moody album rather than having intention to conquer the club venues. However, there are up some exceptions either. Get yourself the headphones and listen to this decent agreement between those spaced-out panoramas, blissful synth touches and spicy rhythms. It used to ignite some memories from my childhood while watching and enjoying the film score of such cartoon as Tayna Tretey Planety (1981, Sojuzmultfilm). Indeed, the compilation embraces a lot of outstanding compositions. There are represented such artists as Susanin, N-Box, Black Dominates, Joint Stock Galaxy, Berkheya, Cj Ools, Parhelia, SND, Van. In a word, TEMS did it again. It is obviously one of the best compilations from the year 2014. The more you listen to it the more it winds up.    

[Teaser of the day] Microvolt - Morta

• Micronoise
• Modern classical
• Organic electronica
• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Glitchtronica

[Teaser of the day] Astral & Shit - Despair

GV Sound

• Ambient
• Soundscapes
• Organic electronica
• Ambient drone
• Epic

Oplen - Electronic Music For Disarmament

Chinese Cookie Poets – ■ (2014)

Bandcamp

/No Wave, Experimental rock, Free jazz, Avant-rock, Improvised music, Electro-rock, Alternative dance/

Comment: Chinese Cookie Poets is a Rio De Janeiro, Brazil-based combo who has issued some albums with a spicy touch of No Wave and improvisation based templates. This album hints at black square which was a symbol spawned by the geometric abstract art pioneer Kazimir Malevich. This time CCP`s 13-track issue crosses more evidently than ever before experimental tendencies with dance rock propulsions full of synergic impulses and vivid incantations. Bold bass lines are interlaced with electronically drenched noises and elongated impulses over there. One of the best albums in 2014.       

Deepfunk – Mistakes Are Blue (2014)

Beachcoma

/Krautrock, Electronic pop, Synth pop, Alternative/  

Comment: by listening to this couple of tracks it reminds of the Krautrock legend Kraftwerk because of exploiting those slowly meandering harmony progressions and mid-tempo electronic synth cadences. Furthermore, it can even say it is somehow epic and majestic despite (or thanks to) its mechanical shell. Indeed, there is up a refined relationship between sublime rhythms and beatific melodies which revolve in a spiral way returning and fading away again.             

w.x – Certain Species (2011)

Bandcamp

/Experimental electronica, Ambient, Avant-electronica, Drone, Electronic pop/

Comment: this 3-track album starts off with swaying and beeping synthesised effects, microtonal sonic fabrics, industrial-tinged dizzy echoes and hypnotic ambient-alike hovers atop (quite reminiscent the aesthetics of an early period Kraftwerk). Upon it the release goes on in the same direction filled with majestic droning, oneiric noises and semi tones which are there to win over eventually. It is quite simple but mind-blowing by a producer from Winsconsin, USA.